The various illness indexes are presently available at no cost. It is requested however that data that is acquired as part of their use be shared with the developers to assess the psychometric properties, clinical usefullness and the interpretive approaches and recommendations in this manual. Included within the tools is a reminder that these are experimental measure not to be used for clinical diagnosis. They are intended to be used by health professionals, researches and scientists to examine appraisal of illness, injuries or congenital impairments and should only be used as part of a competent clinical assessment to provide recommendations. The restrictions are outlined in the Illneess Index Manual